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Blu-Ray Edition of Buster Keaton’s ‘Seven Chances’ Offers Opportunity To Focus on Another Big Name From Silent Comedy Era, Clyde Bruckman
Bruckman made a significant contribution to Keaton’s output during the 1920s and co-directed what is considered not only the comedian’s finest film, but one of the greatest films extant, ‘The General’ (1926).
Never Heard of Artsakh? ‘There Was, There Was Not’ Offers a Good Chance To Learn About the Troubled Former Soviet Region
The director, who set out to highlight the lives of women in a culture dominated by men, notes that she ‘never meant to make a film that documented war, displacement, and ethnic cleansing.’
Believe the Hype: While Moderately Flawed, Payal Kapadia’s ‘All We Imagine as Light’ Deserves the Accolades It Has Garnered
Working with cinematographer Ranabir Das, Kapadia traverses Mumbai’s byways with an ethnographic eye, crafting a free-ranging tale of hard-scrabble lives that has been recognized for its focus on ‘subjects related to the female world.’
4K Restoration of 1932 Film ‘Scarface’ Offers Opportunity To Experience the Deft Directing of Howard Hawks
Notwithstanding its moralistic add-ons, flagrant comic touches, and dated character types, ‘Scarface’ retains its brute primacy, an explosive sense of oncoming disaster, and inevitable comeuppance.
A Devastating Documentary, ‘Nathan-ism’ Focuses on a Witness to History at Nuremberg
When we meet Nathan Hilu, the nonagenarian artist is drawing, scribbling, cutting, pasting, and writing about the time he spent at Nuremberg. A lively raconteur, he rattles off his adventures with a ragged and often salty esprit.
New Package of Laurel and Hardy Silents Offers Chance To Watch as Legendary Comedy Team’s Foibles Are Established
‘Laurel and Hardy: Year Two’ includes 10 comedy shorts of varying quality, each of which runs about 20 minutes in length. Even the best are loose-limbed, ramshackle, on-the-fly efforts.
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